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The PS4 Pro is Sony’s first incremental hardware update and while Sony doesn’t totally rule out another upgrade in the future, it will take a lot of effort.
Sony released the PS4 Pro last month and judging from early analysis, the enhanced PS4 console is selling very well. The Pro helped triple UK PS4 sales, and recent reports claim that the console has helped Sony to outsell Microsoft’s ...read more

At long last, support for DirectX 12 will be coming next week to Ubisoft Massive’s The Division. The upcoming patch for the PC version of the game that will release next week will add support for Microsoft’s next generation API, in addition to lowering performance impact with high CPU usage, fixing the issue that caused the loss of character controls, and fixing issues with controllers on ...read more

DICE has identified the cause for the bug responsible for performance drops in Battlefield 1 on PS4 Pro following the release of the most recent patch.
Battlefield 1 developer DICE never officially talked publicly about the game’s PS4 Pro features. Instead, when players started testing the game on Sony’s more powerful console, they were pleasantly surprised to see frame-rate and resolution ...read more

Three more titles are being added to the list of Xbox 360 games playable on Xbox One today.
First on the list is the 2007 first-person shooter Shadowrun, loosely based on the table-top game. It was the first cross-platform play title on Microsoft’s now defunct Games for Windows Live.
Next up is Space Ark, the 2010 single-player arcade title from Strawdog Studios, which also featured ...read more

YouTube’s most popular channel, PewDiePie, hit a new milestone today, crossing 50 million subscribers. Earlier this week, in a rant about how changes to the service were costing him views, PewDiePie promised to delete his channel when he hit this milestone. In a tweet today, he said the end will arrive at noon (5PM GMT) tomorrow.
Promising to delete your channel, like announcing that ...read more

Phil Spencer has recently made it very clear that he views the Xbox One Scorpio as a premium product, and that its price should reflect that, which has led to persistent speculation regarding just how high the new console may be priced. However, in an interview with AusGamers, Spencer has clarified his stance, stating that he still wants the system to be priced like a console, instead of a gaming ...read more

Activision announced that the 6 additional Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare maps will be coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered on December 13th.
Additionally, Activision is adding "Winter Crash" to Modern Warfare Remastered. A Winter Crash playlist will be added starting December 20th and lasting throughout the holiday.
Activision says there is also “more announcements coming ...read more

Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s very first game for smartphones (Pokemon GO was not developed by Nintendo, and Miitomo isn’t a game, strictly speaking), is almost here- it launches next week on iOS devices, and that’s a big deal. And to promote the game, Nintendo now have two new videos for the game out.
The first one is an advertisement- it’s live action, showing players around the world ...read more

Sony have released PS4 system update 4.07, and I’ll give you three guesses to figure out what it does- although I think that’d be two guesses too many. Yes, that’s right- ladies and gentlemen, the new system update is the latest in a long line of tradition of system stability firmware updates.
The patch notes just note that the update ‘improves the quality of the system performance;’ ...read more

Yesterday, we had heard that Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime would be attending the Late Night Show with Jimmy Fallon to showcase Nintendo’s upcoming mobile game Super Mario Run. This was reasonably expected- Nintendo often attend the show when a major new product launch is coming, and Super Mario Run looks to be their most important launch in a year full of them.
And yes, the Super Mario Run ...read more